Essential Music Theory Basics! Maschine: Rhythm 

One of the best instructors I’ve ever seen on YT. well done

I’d love to see you do a video on time stretches and tempo changes!

Very insightful.. good job .. looks like you actually teach music.. that's rare in tutorialists

I’m so excited to get my Maschine+ and my S88. I think they compliment each other perfectly.

Ive worked out why this guy is a complete legend?! Its becasue he's Canadian, amen to that!!!!

The tip on using the Grid gave me some great rhythmic ideas I want to try. Thank you for inspiring Jef!

This is a power-packed presentation. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Jeff. You explain things really well. You are a very good educator. I thought maybe this was going to be too basic for me, but I actually learned some new things towards the end. Thank you for making these excellent videos.

Thank you so much Jeff, you're a great teacher. I really enjoy watching your videos and learning so much about music, theory and production.

I don’t think anyone using a MASCHINE or any other electronic rhythm instrument understands how fundamentally important this lesson is. Much thanks 🤘🏽

Great stuff and here is why...music is all about math...how it relates to time and space...you do not have to be a genius...just a student of basic time. And the best part is it comes naturally. Without thinking we bop to the rhythm of the music time. He breaks down what we do naturally and helps us to translate it in a very practical way. Well done.

Wow, I was almost background listening to this while you were going over the basics of the notes and quantizing, but I realized I never really thought about switching note resolutions to quantize and I'd been doing that *all* wrong. And the info about Swing was all new to me. I just thought of swing as like, a "groove meter", but when you switched it over to Triplets and they sounded the same my mind was BLOWN and it all made sense. Thanks for being a great teacher, Jef! This is the stuff I love about music theory, even though I know so little - getting to the science of WHY things sound good is fascinating and makes me wish I had studied music in college.

Hey Jef, I love the way you break things down. Just found your tutorials and they are like finding an oasis in a desert :) Great quality, humour and easy to follow. Thank you for sharing dude!

Hi Jeff loving the maschine tutorials. Could you please to a vid on mastering and mixing in maschine? Keep going mate love your work.

This is the second video im leaving open in a tab hoping i will watch and learn when i have time :D. good stuff.

Passionnant. Well done

This is the best video on getting to know the Maschine that I've seen on RU-vid. It has really helped me a lot. Thank you!

Just a brilliant video. One of those - this is the video I wanted but hadn’t realised moments. New to production and easy to skip past basics. Great stuff

Brilliant. Your videos are so helpful.

I like your content, so far everything I’ve seen from you has been valuable!

Just came across this video! You do an awesome job of breaking this down. This is defintiely going to help me make my tracks a little more fun especially with drums.

I've been binge watching your Maschine videos all night! Great job. I have definitely learned things that I never knew before.

Dude not gonna lie, you know your shit with theory

Man, you you just blew my mind with swing settings.

Dude, yes. Finally some instruction that resonates. Thank you!

first time i heard 5/4 in deadmau5's track fml i lost my mind !!! good stuff Jeff, its always good to just hear some of these basics again

VERY EDUCATIONAL.... GREAT INFO....

Thank you Jeff...again very educational...good job man

Thank you so much for all your videos I just got the machine mk3 the other day and these videos are so understandable for Pete sake. Lol you probably heard that a million times but that’s awesome. Thank you again stay safe and well Godspeed 🎶🎶🎶🎶

Love for you to get into detail with the time signatures you mentioned. Not much out there on time sigs in maschine

Amazing video! This is just what I’ve been looking for. Thank you Jeff,keep them coming 🤙

Supercontent.. so easy to follow and just great for learning. Really like this, it really helped me. Will def sub

You are an excellent facilitator, congrats!

Good video once again, very well explained

Thanks a lot Jeff I was confused in quantization in logic. Now more thongs are clear for me! I'm gonna try quantization on Maschine and logic to practice that! Very nice explanation!

will be waiting for harmony and melody

this clarified a lot for me ... thank you

Great lesson Jef... keep'em coming! I would love a tutorial on Machine / Kontakt in Logic.

Awesome..Thanks Jef..

Jeff, you have some dam good videos. Subscription activated. Thanks for the work and time.

2nd video today Ive watched of yours I went ahead and subbed you have a knack for tutorials dude.

Very good teaching skills, thank you,I've learnt alot from your tutorials.

Thanks again for another awesome vid Jef, you've really raised the "bar" on music theory education with this one! :D

Superb stuff, trying to get my head around all this kontrol stuff - guitarist.

Awesome! Thanks

Jeff Gibbons, I love you for this.

Thank you for the video! I own a Native Mikro MK3 and work within Logic Pro x. Could you please do a video for Macshine/Logic Pro X users.

Glad I found your channel very informative videos and great quality. Just subed! Gonna watch as many as I can. Thanks in advance.

I see that artwood on the desk he a good guy

Hi thanks for the great tutorials. I wondered where you got the case for the mk3?

Actually saving me so much brain time mate, good job on the video! 8))))))

Cool thank you for helping an keep things easy Jef 😎🔊🎶

Hello Jeff, Thanks a lot for sharing knowledge. Could you one day address the notion of drunk Groove (or J Dilla feel) is this possible on maschine ? Logic and Ableton allow a midi edition making things possible and easy. but about maschine it's a real mystery ? Big up from Paris France 🇫🇷

nice job. if you could do a who to integrate Maschine in Cubase

Hey Jef! Very good videos! I’m seriously considering the MK3 to use to add simple drums and bass to vocal and guitar recordings of my gig performances in GarageBand. Would love your thoughts on that. Thanks.

Jef, you need to produce your own cheat sheet 👏👏👏👏

Thanks for the video, really love your style. Any chance of exploring chords and scales in Maschine? I’m not musically trained so I’m looking into the circle of 5ths and using Serato sample to get the key of tunes I like but feel I’m missing something. Your ideas on this aspect of Maschine with your teaching style I think would be amazing. Have you also checked @blezzbeats on RU-vid? This guys machine tutorials are next level and like yourself he has an amazing teaching style. Thank you for the knowledge 🇬🇧

I always struggle to merge loop-based music making with arrangement-based such as Ableton arrangement view, which I use for release version of tracks.

thank you are awesome. I could pay for your music lessons...

keep em comùing Jazzy Jeff

definitely earned my subscribe and my thumbs up, love your vids A++++++++

love your video.

Is there a way to switch from 3/4 to 4/4 during a song or do I have to just record no grid style the whole way? Thanks & I love your work sir! =)

omg so helpful, ty!

Jeff, love the videos. They are very informative and I am learning a great deal, thank you. Might I ask where you got that case for your Maschine?

How do you switch between solo and non solo of tracks. Haven't found this yet.

can you do a reggae beat and show where the bass drum fall etc. ?

Thank you so much :)

Thank you for the informative video...What is your camera gear ?

This is my new favorite teacher / advisor for music; Hey Jeff, Where can someone with not too bad credit get like a 3 or 4 pay off loan for some nice new NI "Maschine" Equipment? Im thinking a new mk3 with software, I just need a couple 3 months to pay it off .. Times are tough out here in da streets...

Great stuff! Merci :-)

This is really cool tutorial! Love your videos. I have a question about the bars for recording in Maschine... how do you let it be free form to automatically follow however many bars I record....this is great for when I'm free styling and then I can edit and select the notes to fit in how I like.... there is a way to do this in other DAWs like logic or Garageband...

Thank you so much, this helps out a lot! Now how would I match the rhythm of the melody with the rhythm of the drum beats? Do I follow the same principles here or is there more to it?

I'm gonna sample your section on swing "dah dut dah dut dah dut dah".

Is this your hobby or profession? Great video.

Much understanding. Big thanks Jef. How many inches your monitor is?

Super

Man I would like to find that T-shirt.

Hi Jef, as usual a very useful tutorial. Thanks. I've just bought a Maschine and tutorials like this are priceless. A little off topic, but my Maschine has the odd glitch and click when playing a song and the CPU gets even just a little busy. I'm using a Lenovo with an AMD A4-9125 processor with 4GB RAM and obviously something is coming up short. Question is, is it something I can fix by upping the RAM to 8 or 16 GB?

Hi! Can Machine be used without the hardware? I don't have much experience in creating rhythmical parts (having a classical education background...), but I think it would be good to be able to create them when I need them. Or is there other software that can do the same, using Cubase? Thanks!

Yesss Drummmmmmsss!

Jef, whats the best way you recommend to distribute your music Maybe earn something from it

is a bar and a measure the same thing?

I have a question for you Jef

I was like this dude looks smart, so I'll watch, but I bet his style is like butt rock classical garage band....Then he said "Dilla"...subscribed

quantizing is only meant for good players in order to fix the last 1%.

did you say Dilla?

did you give up? harmony and melody tutorials never came

Maybe u have some Russian friend to make russ sub